MHillyard Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 (edited) I was amazed at the range of equipment that was used. There are what i think are M7 Priest tanks, halftracks with raised bonnets and what look like Boys anti tank rifles. The goggles look like modern safety goggles! What do you think? Edited February 26, 2012 by MHillyard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnwardle Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 I'm amazed that the Rat Patrol is on you tube! I wrote to "points of view" back in the mid 60s when the series finished asking for another series. As the episode shown is series 1 episode 1 does this mean there is a series 2? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHillyard Posted February 26, 2012 Author Share Posted February 26, 2012 I'm amazed that the Rat Patrol is on you tube! I wrote to "points of view" back in the mid 60s when the series finished asking for another series. As the episode shown is series 1 episode 1 does this mean there is a series 2? yes there were 2 series. it was removed from UK TV early because of masses of complaints or historical inaccuracy regarding the fact that they are american and there were no Americans in the LRDG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Grundy Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 What utter tosh.............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazzaw Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Ditto re the Tosh, Usual american rubbish on how they won the war and the western desert campaigns single handed with all the kit, pity they never found the sand paint as well nor researched uniforms etc. And the Sgt public schoolboy (ex OTC)charge of the HQ and all the other junior ranks were awfully polite and well spoken Pity it took a second series to realise how innacurate it was, maybe they got lost on the way to Morroco/Algeria on Operation Torch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels v Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Yep that was a Boys AT riffle, must have been difficult to drive those halftracks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchinuk Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 I was amazed at the range of equipment that was used. There are what i think are M7 Priest tanks, halftracks with raised bonnets and what look like Boys anti tank rifles. The goggles look like modern safety goggles! What do you think? Could Priests really fire their main gun on the move? The script felt like it was pinched from an old Western, they (the "Germans") even put their 'tanks' in a circle! jh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oily Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Some of the 'distant' shots of jeeps seem to look like radio-controlled models, and the Germans helmets were WWI models with the longer more pronounced 'peak' section. I believe the sexton/priest 'tanks' could fire on the move, but accuracy would not have been very good at all.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 It's almost as bad as Battle of the Bulge, but it's nice to see the vehicles being used like that. Regardless of the fact that the Germans did not have M7B2 Priests. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHillyard Posted February 29, 2012 Author Share Posted February 29, 2012 On the second series there are two or more what seem to be M8s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 At least they did not give the Germans Patton tanks and the like!! :nut: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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